Space in the Ancient Novel - Paschalis, Michael (Barkhuis, 2002)
Lsit of Illustrations; Preface; Narrative Spaces; Chariton's Syracuse and its histories of empire; Chronotope and locus amoenus in Daphnis and Chloe and Pleasntville; Literary Topography in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Corinth, Rome, and Africa: a Cultural Background for the Tale of the Ass; On the Road in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; The Temple and the Brothel: Mothers and Daughters in Apollonius of Tyre; Social Geography in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles; Reading Space: A Re-examination of Apuleian ekphrasis; A Good Place to Talk: Discourse and Topos in Achilles Tatiusand Philostratus
Space and Displacement in ApuleiusThe Laughter Festival as a Community Integration Rite in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Indices
This special issue of Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1, entitled 'Space in the Ancient Novel', brings together a collection of revised papers, originally presented at the International conference under the same title organized by the Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete and held in Rethymnon, on May 14-15, 2001. This conference inaugurated what is hoped to become a new series of biennial International meetings on the Ancient Novel (RICAN, Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel) which aspires to continue the reputable tradition of the Groni